When I heard about Persona 4 Arena, The only things I really knew about it was that it was being developed by Arc System Works (the brilliant team behind the BlazBlue series). However, Arena turned out to be more than just an excuse to get my arcade stick out – it was a surprise present that gave me something new in a genre I’d felt had gotten almost too comfortable with itself. Read More »
Ahh, the Cold War. Colder than the Eastern Front, some might say. From Eugen Systems comes the sequel to their 2012 game Wargame: European Escalation. Wargame: AirLand Battle, subtitled after the US Army’s Cold War fighting doctrine of the same name, features extremely deep realism that sets it apart from a genre somewhat lacking diversity. Read More »
I’m not going to blame you if you haven’t paid much attention to Insomniac’s brand spanking new multiplatform IP, Fuse. After first being revealed under the title ‘Overstrike’ way back at E3 2011, and then becoming rebranded in Augst 2012 as Fuse, the game has kept a fairly low profile. Upon its reveal, I almost immediately classed it as “another generic third person shooter I’ll never play”. Read More »
It’s not every day that you get generalised under the blanket term of ‘mediocre’ by someone who created a game as insipid as Epic Mickey, but that might change if Warren Spector’s weekly column becomes a daily one. In a column attempting to address the problems with Metacritic, Spector has stumbled headlong into a multi-faceted fallacy of assumptions and half-baked thoughts. Read More »
The surface remains an uninhabitable, scarred monstrosity; a testament to the scary power at man’s fingertips. The air is a toxic cocktail of radiation and despair, as the terrain is tread only by the brave and bold, as well as the creatures left above to be warped by the harsh vicissitudes of nuclear fallout. Sadly, Moscow’s body died long ago, and in Metro: Last Light, the spirit has begun to rot also. Read More »
Battle Arena Melbourne (BAM) is Melbourne’s major Australian fighting game tournament circuit, and will be celebrating its 5th anniversary this year with an expected attendance of over 300 competitors. This weekend, competitors from all over the country will congregate in one place to test their minds and skills against each other in a grueling three day long tournament. Read More »
Before you go getting all excited over this expansion I’m going to knock down your expectations a peg or two. Dark Arisen commits nearly all the atrocities of its predecessor. Missions never venture away from the standard fetch quest, characters remain as monotonous as Entourage’s Vincent Chase and your pawns repetitive dialogue still encourages you to scalp their face and pour vinegar over the remaining flesh wound. Read More »
My gut instinct told me that Remember Me wouldn’t be a good game; however, this reaction wasn’t based on feeling alone. After that first trailer delivered a line so poorly and so cliche in structure that it threatened my eyes to roll back so far in my head I’d be mistaken for a Magic 8 ball. Read More »
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